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Nora Ephron Quotes

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012

Topics

Best Blame Writing You Movies About

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

Mother Me Speak Language Result

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

God Science Soul Feeling Nothing

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

Jennifer Coolidge

Funny Women Ugly Face Weird Comedy

I don't know about the totally happy album, though. I don't know if that will ever come from me.

Happy Me Know Will Come Album

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

People Talking Stop Mental Illness

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Man Think Mood Up Days Get

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

Stephen Collins

Church Go Episcopal Pacific

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

Present You Audience Vacuum Act

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

Happiness Path Progress America Lies

Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.

Opportunity Hope Nation Improve Who

When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.

Family Car Nobody Toys Kid Would

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Relationship Wife Song End Now See

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